SOURCE: Phoebe-Lou Adams? Review of Looking at Pictures, by Kenneth Clark. Atlantic 206, no. 5 (November 1960): 152.

In the following review, the critic reviews Clark's Looking at Pictures, a book of sixteen essays, each of which studies a picture and its relation to the painter and the time period.

Kenneth Clark's Looking at Pictures is quite another sort of book about art. It consists of a series of sixteen essays, each concerned with a specific painting. They were originally written for an English newspaper and have since been somewhat expanded and reinforced by numerous halftones and a handful of color plates.

Sir Kenneth's introduction to this book begins, “No doubt there are many ways of looking at pictures, none of which can be called the right way,” a statement that makes it impossible for anyone to take issue with the author's way. His way is in fact a good illustration of...